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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Soda Springs in Idaho

Posted by admin on October 20, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 42.5693S, -111.4137WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Soda Springs in Idaho on Friday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.62 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:38:42 / 9:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 7.62 km, -111.4137° West, 42.5693° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/10/17 / 2017-10-20 16:38:42 / October 20, 2017 @ 4:38 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000auql. Id of event: us1000auql.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 65 km (40 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Preston.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 18 km ESE of Soda Springs, Idaho. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.4137° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.5693° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km ESE of Soda Springs, Idaho Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-20 16:38:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-20 16:49:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 121 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.032 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000auql Id of event.
Event Code 1000auql An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000auql, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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